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Before facing Brazil in the World Cup semifinals on Tuesday, the Germany soccer team did its homework, and it used a quantitative Big Data approach to do it. According to website 2paragraphs , assistant coach Hansi Flick said students at Cologne's Sports University assembled years of research on the Brazilian team for team managers to pore through. The data included detailed analyses of all of Brazil's players, including their favorite moves, how they have performed in high pressure situations, their reactions when fouled, how they sprint for the ball and more. The idea, according to the article, was that if the team could analyze as much useful data as it could get a hold of, maybe massive data analysis would be the key to victory. With Germany trouncing Brazil 7-1, perhaps the game was also a victory for Big Data in soccer.